Lead Actors for ‘Superman: Legacy’ Have Been Officially Picked!

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Not even a year ago, we all thought DCEU would continue with Henry Cavill’s Superman when he appeared in the post-credit scene of ‘Black Adam.’ However, the hierarchy at DC Studios changed when James Gunn and Peter Safran were hired as new CEOs of DC Studios, and their main task was to plan a new cinematic universe that would replace DCEU after WBD decided to pull the plug on the cinematic universe that couldn’t find the right course since 2017’s ‘Justice League’ flopped both critically and commercially.

After he finished his work on Marvel Studios’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ with the third installment, which received positive reviews and is deemed one of the best MCU movies in the franchise’s post-Endgame era, James Gunn immediately started developing his next project. ‘Superman: Legacy’ will be the newest reboot of the Superman movie series and the first DCU movie! Since the movie was first announced last February, there have been a couple of actors who were shortlisted for main roles, but now we finally know for sure!

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We finally have a new Superman and Lois!

The news we’ve been waiting for for the last couple of months is finally here! We finally know who will be the next live-action Superman and Lois in James Gunn’s next movie. As Deadline reported, David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan will lead the first DCU movie, and James Gunn confirmed the news soon after the report surfaced!

David Corenswet is a 29-year-old actor who began his career by guest starring in TV shows such as ‘Elementary’ and ‘House of Cards.’ He starred in Netflix shows ‘The Politician’ and ‘Hollywood,’ which were both created by Ryan Murphy.

Rachel Brosnahan is best known for playing an aspiring stand-up comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel, in ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ which aired for five seasons on Amazon Prime Video between 2017 and 2023. The series concluded its final season last month. Brosnahan won the Primetime Emmy Award for the role in 2018 and was nominated thrice in 2018, 2020, and 2022.

‘Superman: Legacy’ is a movie that will mean a lot for both fans and the studio. The ending of DCEU isn’t going smoothly since the last three DCEU movies have all flopped commercially, and two DCEU movies are left to be released. ‘Superman: Legacy’ is expected to start a new cinematic universe and a new era of DC movies in general.

Apart from it, there are four more movies and five TV shows in development for the upcoming cinematic universe, and a good start with this movie will be crucial for the future of Gunn’s DC vision.

‘Superman: Legacy’ will start production in January 2024. Written and directed by James Gunn, the movie is set to be released on July 11, 2025!

What are your thoughts about this casting for ‘Superman: Legacy’? Let us know in the comments!

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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